I have a strategy I want to use where I buy only on certain days of the year - is there a way to put multiple "values" into the an Input of a strategy?

I haven't figured out how to enter in multiple values? (Is that even possible?) Or do I have to modify the code of the strategy in some way?

For example what I want to do is:

 

Code

Input: 25, 35, 45, 55, 65

Thank you for any help!

CreativelyChris,

welcome to NexusFi. Your best bet will likely be using a string that you use to extract the inputs from within your code. You could provide the dates as one comma separated string for example, but you would have to split this string within your code and extract the dates. Another approach could be reading the inputs in from a file and processing them within your code.

Regards,

ABCTG

CreativelyChris 

I have a strategy I want to use where I buy only on certain days of the year - is there a way to put multiple "values" into the an Input of a strategy? I haven't figured out how to enter in multiple values? (Is that even possible?) Or do I have to modify the code of the strategy in some way? For example what I want to do is:   Code Input: 25, 35, 45, 55, 65 Thank you for any help!

Thanks for the help.

I've found in the documentation that in "elsystem.collections" there is a Split() function.

This seems to require me to put the data into a vector.
Is this the best method to go about this?

I'd have to put the string into a vector -> split it -> convert string to a number -> compare my source value (date) to see if it matches any of the values in that vector?


I'm very new to EL, so if there is a better method, or easy way to compare the source value to a list of values any advice/help would be greatly appreciated.


Thank you!

CreativelyChris,

there are multiple reserved words to manipulate strings that would not require using a vector, but the Split method can be very convenient, though.
Split returns "a vector of elements that were delimited by the Separator string". You do not have to put your string in a vector first.

In the end you would need to check if the current bar's date is included in the vector to see if trading is allowed on that day. For that you could convert the
date to a string and check if this string is included in the vector.

Regards,

ABCTG

CreativelyChris 

Thanks for the help. I've found in the documentation that in "elsystem.collections" there is a Split() function. This seems to require me to put the data into a vector. Is this the best method to go about this? I'd have to put the string into a vector -> split it -> convert string to a number -> compare my source value (date) to see if it matches any of the values in that vector? I'm very new to EL, so if there is a better method, or easy way to compare the source value to a list of values any advice/help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!